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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replied Maggie, opening her blue eyes wide: "It would appear that the rules are not consistent with the ad that I endorse, and therefore I regretfully withdraw (or forfeit?) or do whatever is necessary to relinquish press gallery membership. Sorry I didn't know about your rules. Shows you should always read the fine print, doesn't it?" Then, jabbing a hatpin at colleagues who appear frequently on TV's press-panel shows, Maggie noted that she must have broken the rules much earlier with her first appearance on such "sponsored television shows" as Martha Rountree...
Within minutes, the sewer tax was down the drain, and D'Alesandro had his inspiration. Why not tax the bothersome Sunpapers and Baltimore's TV stations on their ad revenues? For that matter, why not tax the advertisers themselves? Last week D'Alesandro finally introduced his bill to raise $4,200,000 by hitting advertisers with a tax of 7½% on their outlays, soaking newspapers, radio and TV stations 2% of their ad revenues...
...defining their sovereignty, nations originally adopted the principle of iusque ad coelum, or roughly "the sky's the limit." But what is the sky? The notion that a nation's control extends unlimited in a huge space cone above its territory is not only gigantic pride, it is also impractical...
...theory, this is not supposed to happen. The Ad Hoc Committee which recommends who should become a professor is composed of leading men in the field from Harvard and elsewhere. The Committee, supposedly, looks for and considers qualified men from the entire nation. But in practice, the Ad Hoc Committee frequently fails to limit a department's tendency to become ingrown with like minded and similarly trained men. Departments oft-times make it clear to the Committee which man they want for the job. A "fair haired" young man is groomed for a particular professorship so that the Ad...
Harvard should take advantage of all available talent, and should actively seek new blood. The departments, Ad Hoc Committees, and the Corporation should look to the rest of the nation more frequently when seeking professors. Fresh air is always welcome in the lecture hall, and from time to time even in Widener...